Levi Asher offers his free memoir of his rise and fall in the dot-com boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The autobiography covers Asher's twenty-five years in programming: his founding of the oldest ongoing literature website Literary Kicks in 1994, his success with the dot-com website iVillage in 1999 (and its subsequent collapse), and how all this insanity affected his personal life. It's a quick, entertaining read.

I'm not disagreeing, but just because they are corruptible by a party deliberately seeking specific results doesn't mean statistics can never be applied responsibly. It's the fault of the people practising it rather than a problem with statistical analysis in and of itself. 80% of statistics are made up anyways

"Unemployment and new jobs figures are even more of a joke."

Yea, I often get frustrated with the methodology not telling me what I'd personally like to know about the market. I know I could do a better job than the government at gathering and analysing data for more informative data, but then I'd be missing the point that this isn't actually their goal.

"It's like ley lines. You can look at any data plot and find things that match whatever you want."